George Harrison after commissioning the paint job, gave the original guitar to his buddy Eric Clapton who used it on "Crossroads" and all throughout the 60's "Cream" era.  We see this guitar slung on Eric throughout all his different hairstyles, hair colors, radical outfits etc.  Eric was very cool when he was rockin'.

Eric loaned the Guitar to "Jackie Lomax" a songwriter known mostly for the song he wrote for my favorite singer of all time "Eric Burdon" of  "The Animals". The song  was covered by another great group "Grand Funk Railroad"  Grand Funk had the hit with it 10 years later "Inside Lookin' Out". I'm not sure just how long Jackie had the guitar in his possession but in 1972 he SOLD the guitar to "Todd Rundgren"  for an undisclosed sum of money. (Remember Eric never gave him the guitar he just loaned it to him).

Todd has had the guitar for more than 28 years.  He has used it on a lot of studio tracks.

One day about 20 years ago, Todd strolled into my shop totally unexpectedly. (He was looking for a Wah Pedal)  I casually attempted to broach the subject of the guitar but Todd was very closemouthed.  "I think Clapton wanted the Guitar back and Todd was not in the mood to give it up".  That is just a theory based on hear say, I really don't know. Anyway I attempted to blab about it a little more and I mentioned that I would gladly give $10,000.00 for the guitar.  I did not get very far with my offer.  Todd just clammed up and changed the subject again. (Oh Well).  Today that original guitar would easily bring half a million dollars.   (That far back $10,000.00 was a reasonable offer)

In any case just about 20 years ago I decided to paint one. I originally used several different artists before I finally found someone who could do justice to the 86 different shades of day glow, pastels and neon colors.  It has been done totally by hand, totally by airbrush and combinations thereof.   I showed the painted version at NAMM 1986 & 1987 and I even pictured it prominently on the cover of my 1986 Catalog along with my Version of Eddie Van Halen's Red White & Black candy stripe model.  I mention these facts just in case someone gets the idea to try and stop me from producing these paintjobs.

In the 60's Cream era, Eric looked different in all of his pictures. He would constantly wear his hair differently, He would constantly change his whole look. One day his hair was red then, The next day he had dark hair and was wearing a Fu Manchu, then clean shaven, Muttonchops, Afros, Pageboys and SF Freak Scene. 

Personally my absolute favorite Clapton guitar work can be found on the "Cream" albums and with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. Give a listen to "Sitting on top of the world" or "I'm So Glad"...   Nothing came close in those days.

      Ed